Disable HDMI/Display from terminal?

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This may not be the right section, as I'm using an AndroidX86 build, but it's essentially a Linux OS so I hope one of you Linux gurus will know the answer :).

I'm putting together a touchscreen Android computer for the kitchen, which will run widgets and apps that we often use (i.e. there's a shopping one, music, recipes, calendar, etc...). However this doesn't need to be on all the time, just in the morning and evenings. I tried using Android apps to put the device to sleep and wake it up again, but there must be a bug in the AndroidX86 port as it's not possible to wake from sleep from the OS itself (requires a keypress or power button).

Alternatively, I could just turn off the monitor - as the Android PC is extremely low power. Not ideal, but a good workaround for now.

Are there any commands that I can use in the terminal which would disable/enable the HDMI output? This would put my monitor to sleep automatically, but keep the PC on for work :). I hope that most Linux commands would still work in the Android console.
 
Thanks Urmas, unfortunately it looks like "xset" isn't available in Marshmallow and ADB has been removed :eek:. I'm going to keep digging and see if there are any alternatives.

I may need to look at a hardware solution instead (which means I could use a PIR detector to enable the display on demand).
 
I've been struggling to disable the display/HDMI, I tried this method with no luck either- hoping it would get around the lack of xset:

"echo 0 > /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/drm/card0/card0-HDMI-A-1/dpms"
 
Also tried setenv without success. I'm just documenting things here in case it helps other people, or someone stumbles across it with an answer :).

setenv video 'video=HDMI-A-1:d'
 
Thanks Urmas, I've not looked too much in to that method as I don't think it can be run from the command line. Perhaps I'll need to see how easy it is to code in the SDK.
 
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